Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wrote the doctor in his diary: "He looked old and troubled. For a quarter of a century he had been a soldier preparing no doubt for the real thing. It had come and this was the end." ¶A young subaltern with "dark eyes under long lashes, a pink and white complexion" was sent to Moran for "vetting." "He made every possible excuse to put off my examination . . . but [his commanding officer] told him to get a move on. When the lad stripped, we found he was wearing a coat of mail under his vest." ¶ Another entry...
...Averell Harriman's Spasso House a gay party was breaking up when the news came. The shocked Ambassador telephoned Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, who sped the word on to Marshal Joseph Stalin and then drove over to Spasso House to voice his condolences. Behind the Kremlin's pink walls lights burned late and long, as Franklin Roosevelt's host at Yalta wrote messages to Franklin Roosevelt's widow and to his successor: "My sympathy in your great sorrow. . . . The Soviet people highly value . . . the leader in the cause of insuring the security of the whole world...
...greying German mother led her pink-cheeked soldier son by the hand to an American prisoners' camp. "He is my son," she said. "I fetched him from his regiment in the woods. You'll take him? Good. Now I know he won't die. Tonight I shall sleep...
...Nobody Believed It." Two minutes after its first flash, NBC had pink, excitable H. V. Kaltenborn commenting. CBS put a second newscaster on the air four minutes after its first flash; nine minutes later Major George Fielding Eliot...
...Miss Bankhead), with the help of a cooney chancellor (Charles Coburn), is governing Russia after a fashion, but not firmly enough to prevent conspiracies against her life. A wild-eyed young soldier (William Eythe) rides three days & nights to warn her of one. Catherine, more impressed by his bright pink condition at the end of the ride than by his loyalty, rigs him out in an ice-cream uniform, promotes him through the military ceiling, moistens him thoroughly with champagne, subjects him to a dazzling blitzkrieg of carnivorous kisses, and turns him into a hopelessly bemused boudoir-poodle. His jealous...